who decided to call a “web archive” a “.war” file and were they thinking about all the terminology for “deploying a war” and “the war explodes” and so on
Whoa! Netflix is developing an adaptation of the Three-Body Problem trilogy.I’m not sure about …
Whoa! Netflix is developing an adaptation of the Three-Body Problem trilogy.
I’m not sure about Benioff and Weiss, but Rian Johnson is involved, and most importantly, both the original author Liu Cixin and translator Ken Liu are involved.
https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/the-three-body-problem-netflix-original-series
“Why should I vote, he’ll just rig/ignore the election?” So you want to hand him a *legit* victory? No. Make him work for it. Make it *hard* for him to steal the election. Make sure that if he does, it’ll be *glaringly obvious*. To everyone. And maybe he won’t be able to.
“Why should I vote, he’ll just rig/ignore the election?”
So you want to hand him a *legit* victory?
No.
Make him work for it.
Make it *hard* for him to steal the election.
Make sure that if he does, it’ll be *glaringly obvious*. To everyone.
And maybe he won’t be able to.
Irony: “FBI worried Ring and other doorbell cameras could tip owners off to police searches”
Convincing people not to vote because they think it’s rigged anyway…is the easiest way to rig an election. You can’t even contest the results, because the votes can be collected and counted legitimately. So don’t let someone convince you not to vote.
Convincing people not to vote because they think it’s rigged anyway…is the easiest way to rig an election. You can’t even contest the results, because the votes can be collected and counted legitimately.
So don’t let someone convince you not to vote.
Few of the deaths linked to recent protests are known to have been caused by demonstrators
Headcanon: 2020 is fallout from telling Dodger to break whatever she has to
Headcanon: 2020 is fallout from telling Dodger to break whatever she has to
It seems to me that the people who scream loudest about “law and order” seem to care a lot more about order than law, and even less about justice.
It seems to me that the people who scream loudest about “law and order” seem to care a lot more about order than law, and even less about justice.
Heh. “L.A. Zoo reopens, but visitors have to stay one zebra apart”
If you need to restart a server, and the logs show no activity for the …
If you need to restart a server, and the logs show no activity for the past hour, the moment you restart it is the moment someone tries to connect.
Kid’s friend over voice chat during Minecraft: “Cheater, cheater, pants on fire!”
Kid’s friend over voice chat during Minecraft: “Cheater, cheater, pants on fire!”
Encountered a weird bug in #PokemonGo: It could find my location, loaded stops, gyms and …
Encountered a weird bug in #PokemonGo: It could find my location, loaded stops, gyms and Pokemon just fine, but wouldn’t show any map features like roads, parks or buildings.
It’s apparently a known issue with the current version of the app. Clearing the cache didn’t work. Neither did going into Advanced Settings & re-downloading the game data. What *did* work was deleting both the cache and the app data, and then re-signing in (and re-doing all my settings, but at least there aren’t too many).
Your tax bill and your ability to treat other people like crap without repercussions should not be the only standards by which you measure freedom.
Your tax bill and your ability to treat other people like crap without repercussions should not be the only standards by which you measure freedom.
Huh. I’ve been keeping up my walking stamina, but apparently I haven’t climbed stairs in …
Huh. I’ve been keeping up my walking stamina, but apparently I haven’t climbed stairs in several months.
In other news, kid’s first day of (virtual) school just wrapped up. It went really …
In other news, kid’s first day of (virtual) school just wrapped up. It went really well.
Here’s hoping he hasn’t *completely* worn out his patience and coping skills for the rest of the day 😬
Update: Not *completely*, but close….
Wow, literal power bricks. Classic red bricks are porous and contain iron oxide…
Wow, literal power bricks.
Classic red bricks are porous and contain iron oxide, which a team in St. Louis has converted into a conductive material for use as a supercapacitor. They hooked up 2 bricks in an electrolyte solution to a AAA battery for a minute and were able to charge a white LED for 11 minutes afterward.
The density isn’t great, but you could use them for things like backup power and emergency lighting.
Turning Bricks Into Supercapacitors
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis made a fast energy storage device out of common building bricks
Adults should be able to tell the difference between criticism and insults. You should be able to criticize without insulting, take non-insulting criticism without reacting as if insulted, and you shouldn’t hide behind “criticism” as an excuse to insult people.
Adults should be able to tell the difference between criticism and insults. You should be able to criticize without insulting, take non-insulting criticism without reacting as if insulted, and you shouldn’t hide behind “criticism” as an excuse to insult people.
Incredible (and in some cases disturbing) photos from the current round of wildfires raging across California.
Incredible (and in some cases disturbing) photos from the current round of wildfires raging across California.
Slightly related: Took the kid to meet-and-greet/supply pickup with the new teacher, which was all …
Slightly related: Took the kid to meet-and-greet/supply pickup with the new teacher, which was all done as drive-through in the school parking lot.
1.5-hour time slot per grade, with each teacher camping out under a different awning next to the parking lot with grocery bags of books & supplies for each student. Drive up wearing masks, go to the right teacher, roll down the windows, say hi, pick up the supplies, stop by the PTA awning on the way out & go.
Online classes start tomorrow.
WTF, Skype? Not only does it not have a built-in way of running two accounts…
WTF, Skype?
Not only does it not have a built-in way of running two accounts on the same device (like, say, putting both my personal and work accounts on my phone), but it seems to think that if I’m signed in on a computer, it doesn’t need to send my phone notifications….even if the computer is locked and/or asleep. That’s literally the whole point of having work Skype on my phone.
Admittedly I don’t really use my personal Skype account for much of anything these days. mostly it’s a way the kid sends me a different collection of emojis and stickers
Found an option to turn on notifications even if I’m on another device. Tested it and while it does send notices to both even when I’m sitting at the computer with the session open, it clears the notification from my phone when I look at the message on the computer, so it *mostly* works like it used to.
Hopefully I won’t miss so many work skypes anymore when I break to take care of other things